Ethnicities, nationalities, and cross-cultural representations in Africa and the diaspora
By: edited by Gloria Chuku
Series: African world series
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Durham, North Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9781611636635
Subjects: African diaspora; Ethnic identity; Africans; Ethnicity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Africans, diasporan Africans, and the development of Africa and its diasporic communities.; title: The repatriates and creolization processes in West Africa: the case of Victoria in British Southern Cameroons  -- Richard Enoh; title: Nwafor Orizu, the American Council on African Education, and the promotion of American education in Nigeria  -- Gloria Chuku; title: Rethinking the African diaspora in the era of globalization: building economic capacity for the twenty-first century and beyond  -- Bessie House-Soremekun; title: "I have no news": African history and African studies today  -- Michael Vickers.; title: Gendered rituals and performances in Africa and the diaspora.; title: Religion in Africa and the universal culture of initiation rites  -- Adelowo F. Adetunji and Adefemi Adesina; title: "Que dança é essa?": reflections of gendered power relations and sociocultural expressions of sexuality in agarrado dancing to roots reggae in São Luis do Maranhão, Brazil  -- Gee A. Yawson; title: African women in drumming: the art and performance of Ayanbinrin  -- Mobolanle E. Sotunsa; title: Costumes and apparels of popular masquerades in Cross River State, Nigeria  -- Bojor Enamhe.; title: Nationalities, media and literary representations of Africa and Africans.; title: Japanese newspaper coverage of Africa (and African soldiers) during World War II: the case of the Tokyo Nichi Nichi (Mainichi) Shimbun, 1939-1945  -- Yasu'o Mizobe; title: The defunct 'self' and 'other': constructing new identity for nationhood in Zakes Mda's The bells of Amersfoort  -- Busuyi E. Mekusi; title: Interpretations of African migrant masculinities in contemporary francophone novels  -- Eunice E. Omonzejie.; title: Politics and the dynamics of ethnicity and nationality in Africa.; title: Federal character: the untold realities of the Nigerian geopolitics  -- Bola Dauda; title: Ethnic nationalism, statism, citizenship and the right to non-discrimination under the Nigerian Constitution  -- Eteete M. Adam; title: Can Pax Nigeriana survive Chinese Africana? -- Abdul-Gafar Tobi Oshodi and Bukola Ajayi.